Adoor Prakash

Adoor Prakash
Adoor Prakash
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office 17 June 2019 (2019-06-17)
Speaker	Om Birla
Preceded by	Anirudhan Sampath
Constituency	Attingal
Minister for Health, Government of Kerala
In office 23 May 2011 – 12 April 2012
Chief Minister	Oommen Chandy
Preceded by	P. K. Sreemathy
Succeeded by	V. S. Sivakumar
Minister for Revenue, Government of Kerala
In office 12 April 2012 – 20 May 2016
Chief Minister	Oommen Chandy
Preceded by	Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan
Succeeded by	E. Chandrasekharan
Minister for Food and Civil Supplies, Government of Kerala
In office 5 September 2004 – 12 May 2006
Chief Minister	Oommen Chandy
Preceded by	G. Karthikeyan
Succeeded by	C. Divakaran
Member of Kerala Legislative Assembly
In office 1996–2019
Preceded by	A. Padmakumar
Succeeded by	K. U. Jenish Kumar
Constituency	Konni
Personal details
Born	(1952-05-24) 24 May 1952 (age 72) Adoor, State of Travancore–Cochin (present day Kerala), India
Political party	Indian National Congress
Spouse	Jayasree Prakash
Children	3
Education	Bachelor of Arts Bachelor of Laws
Alma mater	Sree Narayana College, Chempazhanthy The Kerala Law Academy Law College, Thiruvananthapuram

Adoor Prakash (born 24 May 1952) is an Indian politician from the Indian National Congress. He is currently the Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha, representing Attingal constituency of Kerala.

He was the Minister of Kerala, India. He has deep family roots in Moonnalam, Adoor. He came to active politics through the Student movement of Kerala Students Union. He was elected to the Kerala Legislative Assembly consecutively from Konni Constituency in 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011 and 2016 General Elections as a candidate of Indian National Congress. He had held the portfolios of Food & Civil supplies from 2004 to 2006, Health and Coir from 2011 to 2012, Revenue from 2012 to 2016, all under Chief Minister Oommen Chandy.^[1]

In 2019, he was elected to the Loksabha from Attingal constituency in 2019, the first Congress candidate to be elected from the constituency since 1989.^[2][3] In 2024, he was reelected from Attingal defeating V Joy of the CPI(M). The margin of victory between the two candidates was 684 votes, the second-lowest majority in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in India.^[4][5]

Prakash was born in Adoor on 24 May 1952 to N. Kunjuraman and V. M. Vilasini. He studied at the Sree Narayana College, Kollam and The Kerala Law Academy Law College, Thiruvananthapuram and graduated with a B.A. and LL.B. He's married to Jayasree and the couple has three children.^[2][1]

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Members of the 17th Lok Sabha from Kerala State

GE 2019

1. A. M. Ariff
2. Adoor Prakash
3. Anto Antony
4. Benny Behanan
5. Dean Kuriakose
6. E. T. Muhammed Basheer
7. Hibi Eden
8. K. Muraleedharan
9. K. Sudhakaran
10. Kodikkunnil Suresh
11. M. K. Raghavan
12. N. K. Premachandran
13. P. K. Kunhalikutty
14. Rahul Gandhi
15. Rajmohan Unnithan
16. Ramya Haridas
17. Shashi Tharoor
18. T. N. Prathapan
19. Thomas Chazhikadan
20. V. K. Sreekandan

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